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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@gecm.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada to C++ translator?
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That's what I thought too when I first went to the page as it has "27 March
1998" at the top.
Look down at the very bottom though and you will descover it is still being
maintained and the
last change was on "2-01-2001" i.e. all rules listed _still_ apply!

"Bob Jacobs" <robert.jacobs@baesystems.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Ted Dennison wrote:
> >
> > And I don't see how having a C++ port is that going to help you the next
time
> > you port to a new system.  Odds are you are actually *better off* right
now with
> > the Ada sources than you would have been with C++ sources. At least the
Ada
> > language itself is portable. C++ can't even say that much. The C++
porting guide
> > for Mozilla forbids using quite a few *core* language features
(templates,
> > static constructors, exceptions, namespaces, among others) due to
portability
> > issues. You can see
> > http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html for the whole list. If
you *do*
> > port to C++, you'd do well to read and follow it.
>
>
> The last time I checked, which was only a few weeks ago, the Mozilla
> guide was so dated that it's pretty much useless.
>
> Bob Jacobs